21.   Despite their super-heated political rhetoric, both sides gave some ground in new budget proposals they traded before talks broke off late in the day.

22.   Given that, some investors say, if political rhetoric causes some brief blips in the markets, so be it.

23.   He takes the political rhetoric at face value and appraises education and training schemes to see what returns they yield.

24.   House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas is known as a free-market economist and free user of political rhetoric.

25.   However, speeches were laced with political rhetoric.

26.   If those statements represent the bookends of political rhetoric, many observers concluded that the commission must have gotten the story about right.

27.   In an age where political rhetoric is black and white, Dole comes across as a shade of gray.

28.   In class, teachers said they avoid the political rhetoric and instead focus on the legal wrangling.

29.   In the aftermath of the Rabin assassination, a considerably more cautious approach to political rhetoric seems to be emerging in Israel.

30.   In some ways his reaction reflected the questions the audience would have, and it made me get beyond political rhetoric.